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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
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Thomas Edward Yorke
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It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.
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Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.
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The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.
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And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps
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I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a you're not Thom Yorke complex.
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You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.
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I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
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I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.
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At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
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You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.
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I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.
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This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
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